Kevin Kelly: Trending quotes

“Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.”

Kevin Kelly book What Technology Wants

Source: What Technology Wants

“Because prices move inexorably towards the free, the best move in the network economy is to anticipate this cheapness.”

Kevin Kelly

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“All items that can be copied, both tangible and intangible, adhere to the law of inverted pricing and become cheaper as they improve.”

Kevin Kelly

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

Law

“In network economics, more brings more.”

Kevin Kelly

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

“Any highly evolved form is beautiful.”

Kevin Kelly

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

Beauty

“The more interconnected a technology is, the more opportunities it spawns for both use and misuse.”

Kevin Kelly

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“The value of a network explodes as its membership increases, and then the value explosion sucks in yet more members, compounding the result.”

Kevin Kelly

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“The future of machines is biology.”

Kevin Kelly

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

Future

“Productivity, however, is exactly the wrong thing to care about in the new economy.”

Kevin Kelly

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“The apparent veil between the organic and the manufactured has crumpled to reveal that the two really are, and have always been, of one being.”

Kevin Kelly

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

“Telling the future is what organisms are for.”

Kevin Kelly

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

Future

“An ecosystem is more like a conference than a community -- indefinite, pluralistic, tolerant, and in constant flux.”

Kevin Kelly

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

Communication

“An event is not triggered by a chain of being, but by a field of causes spreading horizontally, like creeping tide.”

Kevin Kelly

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

“In the past, an innovationÕs momentum indicated significance. Now, in the network environment, where biological behaviour reigns, significance precedes momentum.”

Kevin Kelly

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

Past

“In the network economy, producing and consuming fuse into a single verb: prosuming. Since a relationship involves two members investing in it, its value increases twice as fast as one's investment.”

Kevin Kelly

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“Everyday we see evidence of biological growth in technological systems. This is one of the marks of the network economy: that biology has taken root in technology. And this is one of the reasons why networks change everything.”

Kevin Kelly

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

Change

“To achieve sustainable innovation you need to seek persistent disequilibrium. To seek persistent disequilibrium means that one must chase after disruption without succumbing to it, or retreating from it.”

Kevin Kelly

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“In the network economy a firm's primary focus shifts from maximizing the firm«s value to maximizing the network's value.”

Kevin Kelly

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“To prosper, feed the web first.”

Kevin Kelly

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“Without some element of governance from the top, bottom-up control will freeze when options are many. Without some element of leadership, the many at the bottom will be paralysed with choices.”

Kevin Kelly

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)